God Against Religion - Rethinking Christian Theology Through Worship

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Myer Boulton is associate professor of ministry studies at Harvard Divinity School. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), he serves on the ministerial staff at Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His books incl Klappentext This volume outlines a Christian theology that takes worship as its basic framework, as the occasion of not only an approach toward God in piety but also separation from God in sin. Drawing on Luther, Calvin, and especially Karl Barth, Matthew Myer Boulton builds a Reformed liturgical theology, maintaining that the God of Jesus Christ is a "God against religion," one who saves human beings from religion by entering it, transforming it, and ultimately ending it.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Myer Boulton
• Publisher: Eerdmans wm b pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780802829726
• ISBN: 978-0-8028-2972-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies; Calvin Institute of Christian; Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity